A "doomsday prepper" in a
rural area of Maryland became a target for police and the FBI after
he told an undercover cop that he was "very irritated" about
Barack Obama's re-election, sparking an investigation that eventually
led to 46-year-old Terry Porter being thrown in prison and having his
home raided by 150 armed officers.

The series of events began when an anonymous
person contacted state police in early November claiming Porter was
"getting crazier and crazier" and had been stockpiling "machine
gun-style firearms" at his home in Sharpsburg. The police followed
up by sending an undercover officer to Porter's home pretending to be
a potential customer for his welding business.

Once the investigation into Porter began,
police discovered that he had a 1992 felony drug conviction and was
therefore barred from owning firearms. On Thursday last week, no less
than 150 armed and militarized police and FBI agents in the guise of
tactical assault teams descended on Porter's house as if they were confronting
a terrorist cell. The raid also included helicopters, SWAT crews, armored
vehicles and even excavation equipment.

Porter was absent at the time of the
raid but turned himself in the next morning at Hagerstown Barrack.

After the raid, the claim that Porter
was stockpiling "10-15 machine gun-style firearms" was demolished
when police uncovered "four shotguns, a .30-30-caliber rifle and
two .22-caliber rifles," hardly a deadly mass arsenal.

It is important to stress that Porter's
possession of guns merely provided a justification for the police raid
and came to light only after authorities began to investigate
him over his anti-Obama statements.

As
the Intel Hub highlights, "The fact that 20 years before he
had a drug conviction enabled the FBI to carry out a raid they would
have never even considered if it wasn't for the fact that they knew
that the man was preparing and was distrustful of the government. To
say the raid was simply for illegal possession of firearms is to ignore
all the facts of this horrific story."

Porter's neighbors expressed their fury
at the needless expense of the raid, noting that Porter was a trustworthy
man who did not pose any kind of violent threat.

“It was ridiculous for (the man),
who would not hurt another person for anything. Unless you would attack
him, he’s not going to go after anyone,” said 35-year-old
Heather Hamilton who lived around the corner from Porter, adding that
the whole episode was "a big waste of taxpayer money."

Friend and neighbor Doug Bigelow said
he "would feel safe leaving his kids with the man," and that
he was "Surprised at what was going on"
because Porter lived his life "on the “straight and narrow."

"Taxpayers should be outraged at
this over-zealous reaction to what we now learn is a man who simply
feared for a crisis coming to America (don’t we all!) and had
become a “doomsday prepper ” —-in addition to having
a neighbor with a grudge who likely turned him in," writes
Ann Corcoran.

"It is true that Porter had a 20-year-old drug
conviction on his record but apparently had no subsequent run-ins with
the law. He is legally not allowed to own a gun so he does have a legal
problem, but that doesn’t justify the cost and scope of this massive
operation."

We
have previously documented the fact that so-called "preppers,"
who given the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy should be being lauded by
the authorities as a good example to other Americans, are now being
treated as terrorists.

Earlier
this year we also reported on the case of David Sarti, who was featured
in National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers show. Sarti visited
his doctor complaining of chest pains, only to have the doctor later
commit him to a psychiatric ward and alert authorities, before Sarti
was declared “mentally defective” and put on an FBI list
that stripped him of his second amendment rights.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and
writer for Infowars.com and Prison
Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also
a host for Infowars Nightly News.